Avoiding stealing a resource when moving the robber in CatanRobber is on your hex, blocking your from collecting important resources. If you get rid of the robber, you gain one more opportunity to collect resources (4 for example) from this hex - you might just get them this turn and win the game. Please check my original question before edit.

Nov8

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Avoiding stealing a resource when moving the robber in CatanThank you for your answer. However I don't understand two things. First, I was under the impression that you can't build anything before rolling the dice. Second, I'm not sure why you assumed that I wasn't going to build anything in this turn. The plan was to move robber away (increase the chance of getting specific resource), block opponent, be left with 7 resource in case of the robber and (after rolling, depending on the result) build accordingly. So I wouldn't be left with the same 7 cards after this turn. Am I getting something wrong here?

Nov7

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Avoiding stealing a resource when moving the robber in Catan@warren I understand, however the whole point of not stealing the resource was to have the same amount of resource cards in hand (7 to be specific) at the moment of rolling the dice. It was to avoid risk of having to discard half of your hand in the event of rolling 7 and activating the Robber.